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Age-friendly Portland
— a university-city-community partnership | | Author(s) | Margaret B Neal, Alan K DeLaTorre, Paula C Carder |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Social Policy, vol 26, nos 1-2, January-June 2014 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, January-June 2014 |
| Pages | pp 88-101 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Urban areas ; Urban and rural planning ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Advocacy ; Coordination ; Projects ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This article addresses the question of how creating an age-friendly city has come to be an important policy and planning issue in Portland, Oregon. In 2006, researchers from Portland State University's Institute on Aging examined the meanings of age friendliness among a broad range of participants in the city. The research was conducted in conjunction with the World Health Organization's (WHO) Age-Friendly Cities Project and followed the completion of two earlier non-WHO-related projects. The city of Portland, through the Institute on Aging, was one of nine original members to apply for and be accepted into the WHO Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities. An Age-Friendly Portland Advisory Council was formed to guide the development of an action plan, monitor progress over time, and suggest additional research. To understand how Portland's age-friendly policy effort has developed over time, the authors use J W Kingdom's (1984) agenda-setting framework to explain how the policy problem was formulated, how solutions were developed, and the influence of local politics. The Portland experience provides a case study that other cities, especially those with a strong commitment to community-engaged urban planning, may find useful as they develop age-friendly initiatives. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150529217 A |
| Classmark | RK: RR: TOB: IQ: QAJ: 3E: 7T |
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